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Police are still not saying what motivated the gunman who walked into a crowded Aurora, Colo., movie theater and opened fired. Suspect James Holmes, 24, was apprehended immediately after the attack. Until recently, he was a grad student studying neuroscience.

Thieves entered the Netherlands' Kunsthal in 2012 and made off with seven paintings, allegedly later burned in an oven by the ringleader's mother. Now the story has taken another strange turn.

Bob Clark plays the puzzle with puzzlemaster Will Shortz and NPR's Ayesha Rascoe.

Arizona took over the top spot in the AP Top 25 men's college basketball poll, a reward for a perfect start to the season that includes a quartet of wins against ranked foes, including a lopsided victory over Auburn last weekend. Alabama remained at No. 12.

By Associated PressMontgomery, AL – A new national study says Alabama's hotly contested partisan races for state Supreme Court seats were by far the most…

Ann Powers picks her favorite chart-topping, radio-dominating songs of 2012.

The cost of the 2012 election will top a record $6 billion, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. If you find it difficult to visualize that figure, here are a few other ways to think about what $6 billion could buy.

At the end of a year in which pop songs were a constant, provocative part of the national conversation, NPR Music critic Ann Powers sifts through the 100 most popular songs of the year to highlight 10 pure pop pleasures worth remembering.

Scott talks to Judy McFarlane, former business owner in Montana who was told she could not use the name 'Montana Broke' for her business. French designer Claude Montana holds the exclusive rights to the name 'Montana'. In support of his state's business owners, the governor of Montana has asked the U-S patent office to review Claude Montana's claim.

Climate change hasn’t recently been a Republican priority. But some young conservatives are hoping to change the narrative within their party.